Poems are expressed through stanzas. Once a poem is written, I believe it could be up to the readers. As humans we all work differently and thats what makes us unique therefore we are able to interpret things in many ways. In Emily Dickinson’s poems, the back story was that some of her poems were not meant to be published or view by others. In her lifetime she was living through the civil war times and she basically wrote these poems for herself. As a reader you are able to see that it’s hard to interpret line by line from her poems and actually figuring out what it means since her poems are mostly to herself. In the reading in the text it says that “As poetry changes itself it changes the poet’s life” I believe once a poem is written, its up to how readers take upon it and translate it the way they want to.